Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv prt] [art] [adj] way " in BNC.

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1 Grim prospects do hang over the heads of black school leavers and the research of Gloria Lee and John Wrench does much to nail down the specific ways in which employment opportunities are much narrower for the black kid seeking apprenticeships in industry ( 1981 ) .
2 Saturdays made no difference to us , for there was no school then , but on Wednesdays some of us had to stand up the whole way to Parma .
3 Most of the class were happy to write out the 24 ways for themselves or start on five buttons .
4 But if you would n't tell me I had to find out the only way I could , ’ Travis explained , tightening his arms about her .
5 It took just a split second to find out the hard way about the pain and disruption so many families in this country go through every year .
6 I had to find out the hard way — to coin a phrase .
7 The trouble is , can we afford to find out the hard way ? ?
8 They went to total excess and then they had to come back the other way .
9 We try to formulate policies that 'll meet the needs of the people who speak to us and then we use officers , not to make necessarily proposals on policies , but to help us to work out the financial ways of achieving those policies , so that 's almost the other way round from the way that John outlined .
10 Second , identifying other people 's best practices gives you the benefit of their knowledge and experience ; you do n't have to try to work out the best way of performing a particular task — you just learn from whoever is already doing it that way .
11 Forget the original lecture situation and sit down with the speaker to work out the best way of communicating his or her message on the video screen .
12 And until we 've looked honestly at the mess you 've landed in , we ca n't hope to work out the best way out of it . ’
13 The Overseas Development Minister , Lynda Chalker , is to visit Russia to try to work out the best way to distribute British emergency food supplies .
14 It is therefore necessary to use some sort of classification to sort out the various ways in which we might approach the problems of observation .
15 At the first whistle the archers shoot two arrows and , when all have shot , the whistle blows and they go to check their scores and await the whistle to shoot back the other way .
16 The conclusion must be that neither side of industry was prepared to give up the old ways of doing things to achieve full employment .
17 ‘ And if you keep both feet in you 've more chance of dropping back into the chair on your knees when it tries to flip , ready for it to whip back the other way , ’ says Birchall .
18 We have to go back a little way to remember that in 1976 they presided over the most savage cuts ever imposed on the national health service .
19 No I , I was just sort of erm A wondering and B wondering whether to go back a different way round and
20 You 've got to start back a long way before you get to the final decisions on costs and budgets .
21 The child 's problem is to figure out the precise way in which the conceptual categories established during the sensori-motor stage map on to the semantic categories which are expressed in adult speech ( Edwards 1973 ) .
22 And no , no , I would n't want her to end up the same way as I did . ’
23 Clubs with water between Congleton and Kidscrobe are to thrash out the best way of removing the mink which have spiralled in numbers .
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